I chat with the famous QC Jeremy Hutchinson 10 months before his death in 2017 at the age of 102. We talk about pornography, prostitution, and the Lady Chatterley Trial while drinking cups of tea in his sitting room in Sussex. Out of respect for his age, I do not challenge some of the language…

Those people with only a superficial knowledge of the transgendering of children may think it is progressive. After all, so the story goes, some children are ‘born in the wrong body’ e.g. a boy can be born with the brain of a girl. He therefore has a deeply felt internal experience of being a girl,…

In 2018, the Swedish government proposed a new law that, if passed, will allow 15- to 18-year-old minors to undergo genital surgery if they wish, and if the procedure has been approved by the National Board of Health and Welfare. Permission from parents will not be an absolute requirement if the health service deems a self-identified transgender adolescent is able to fully…

Women’s Rights Are Human Rights Progressive folk should surely celebrate when a charity promotes the ‘human rights (as set out in the universal declaration of human rights and subsequent united nations conventions and declarations) of people whose experience of sex, gender, sexual orientation and/or sexuality does not align, in whole or in part, with dominant…